SOURCE: SAMIDOUN Shireen Issawi is a human rights lawyer and prominent advocate for Palestinian prisoner rights from occupied East Jerusalem who has participated in monitoring, documenting and advocacy on human rights violations committed by Israeli authorities against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Issawi was arrested by Israeli authorities on March 6, 2014 and has since […]

SOURCE: MA’AN NEWS AGENCY Hyman Nassar was arrested on Septermber 18, 2014 – he has been arrested multiple times and placed under administrative detention — he has not been charged with any crime. Nasser is the legal coordinator of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. The U.S. National Lawyers Guild International Committee has […]

SOURCE: SAMIDOUN Bushra al-Taweel was arrested on July 2, 2014. She is a 21 year-old student and journalist who volunteers for the Aneen Al-Qaid news organization which publishes information about Palestinian prisoner issues. She also performs voluntary work for the Prisoners Club and is a participant in a European Union sponsored project on documenting human […]

SOURCE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Murad Shtaiwi is a well known non-violent activist and one of the leaders of weekly protests in Kufr Qaddum. The protests are aimed at the military occupation and call for the reopening of the main road connecting Kufr Quddum to Nablus, that was closed due to the expansion of illegal Israeli settlement […]

SOURCE: HUFFINGTON POST The ill-treatment of Palestinian minors held within the Israeli military detention system is “widespread, systematic and institutionalised,” according to a report released by the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF’s 22-page report examines the Israeli military court system for holding Palestinian children and found evidence of practices it said were “cruel, inhuman and […]

SOURCE: DEFENSE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL – PALESTINE On July 30, 2014, Diyaa, a 16-year-old from the northern West Bank village of Osarin, woke up to thunderous banging and shouting at the front door. It was 3 a.m., and Diyaa’s parents could only watch as their son was dragged to an Israeli army jeep. Diyaa told the […]

SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE EAST MEDIA CENTER In October 2015, Detainee Abdul-Fattah Doula, representative of child detainees in Ofer Israeli Prison, told a lawyer that 100 children are being held in Ofer Prison, and that all of them were kidnapped this month. Doula added that this number was a 400% increase in the number of child detainees, […]

SOURCE: ALKARAMA On 3 August 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Amer Bajawi, a Palestinian teenager arrested on 23 May 2015 and sentenced to four months of imprisonment by a military court for “throwing stones.” The case of Amer fits into […]

SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE EAST MEDIA CENTER On February 17, 2015, journalism student and folk dancer, Lina Khattab, was sentenced to six months in HaSharon Prison and a 6000 Shekel fine. Khattab, 17 years of age, also received a three-year suspended sentence for what the Israeli Military Court called “participating in a protest in solidarity with […]

SOURCE: MIDDLE EAST MONITOR Amongst a host of events to mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, families of political prisoners gathered outside the Ramallah offices of the International Red Cross to welcome 15 year old Khaled al-Sheikh back from prison. Khaled al-Sheikh was the youngest Palestinian locked up in the Israeli prison system following his arrest from […]